D on the Raspberry Pi

[Stefan Frijters]

On Sunday, 15 July 2012 at 15:11:03 UTC, Sönke Ludwig wrote:
>
>>
>> Anyway, building a compiler on the raspberry pi worked for me, 
>> although
>> it took a long time to build. I created a new wiki page with 
>> build
>> instructions:
>> https://bitbucket.org/goshawk/gdc/wiki/Raspberry%20Pi
>>
>
> I've done some new attempts. After using a different OS image 
> on a different SD card, everything worked much better (raspbian 
> "Pisces"). I followed your instructions on the wiki page but 
> had to change arm-linux-gnueabi to arm-linux-gnueabihf and 
> later removed them altogether with the same effect.
>
> However, compilation got stuck at the same place as before. It 
> couldn't find <bits/predefs.h> and other architecture specific 
> files. Symlinking from /usr/include/arm-linux-gnueabihf/* to 
> gcc/* helped a bit until it stopped with the same error as in 
> the build log that I posted before.
>
> I will probably just try the debian image, although a system 
> with hardfloat support would be pretty important in the long 
> run. But the fact that it doesn't find the /sys/, /bits/ etc. 
> headers sounds like it is just some stupid little build 
> problem. But I'm much too unfamiliar with the GCC build process 
> to make effective guesses for a solution.

Following the instructions at Johannes Pfau's link above I
managed to get the compiler up and running on the squeeze image
(not counting stupidity on my part which made the compilation
fail more than six hours into the process...). So thanks for
that! However, I am curious if anyone has made any progress
getting it to work on the raspbian image. I will try some things
tomorrow (though I'm a newbie, so I doubt I'll get very far on my
own) but with the 8-hour compilation cycles I would like to avoid
any stupid mistakes if possible. Any experiences or tips would be
helpful!

Regards,

Stefan